Uniformat D2030
Sewage ejector pump
Also called ejector pump, lift station
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Service life
Years in service. The band runs from the shortest to the longest life the sources state, so it shows how much they disagree, not how long 80% of units last. The line is the median of the stated lives.
Basis
- 50 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p9 · HUD CNA 3.4.1.1.7 “Sewage Ejectors” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)Same life for family and elderly properties. US multifamily housing.
- 10 years · General depreciation rates (IR265), July 2021, p51 · PUMP “Sewerage pumps” — Inland Revenue (Te Tari Taake), New Zealand (accounting life)Printed page 51. Pumping sets category. Printed DV 20%, SL 13.5%. Tax depreciation lives set by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for New Zealand income tax, not engineering or asset-management lives; they are banded and often short (e.g. reticulation piping 25 years). The July 2021 edition was the newest PDF reachable; the online Depreciation Rate Finder may hold later determinations.
How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.
Municipal lives for plumbing (D20)
26 municipalities in Ontario and British Columbia state a life for plumbing as a whole, in 18 distinct tables: 15–50 years, median 25. 34 rows come from capital asset policies (accounting lives, used for amortization) and 1 from asset management plans (planning lives, used to forecast replacement). They describe the system rather than this component, and none is a measured life.
Years. Each dot is one stated life and each bar a stated range; equal values stack. Hollow marks are planning lives from asset management plans; filled marks are accounting lives from policies. The dashed line is the median. Policies that copy the same table count once.
All 27 stated lives
| Municipality | As written | Years | Kind | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kingston | Building Fixtures | 15 | accounting | p15 · 2016 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - Water Treatment System | 15 | accounting | p17 · 2020 |
| Trent Lakes | Mechanical Systems - Fixtures | 15 | accounting | p10 · 2009 |
| Fort St. James, Revelstoke, Rossland, Sicamous, Tumbler Ridge · same table | Electrical/Plumbing/Fire | 15–20 | accounting | p5, p9, p7, p9, p5 · 2010 |
| Okanagan-Similkameen | Electrical/Plumbing/Fire | 15–20 | accounting | p11 · 2023 |
| Salmo | Electrical/Plumbing/Fire | 15–20 | accounting | p6 · 2016 |
| Comox Valley | HVAC systems, mechanical, plumbing, wiring, etc. | 20 | accounting | p6 · 2010 |
| Cranbrook | HVAC, plumbing, lighting, etc | 20 | accounting | p9 · 2010 |
| Telkwa | Electrical/Plumbing/Fire | 20 | accounting | p8 |
| London | Building Components - Services (HVAC, lighting, communication, plumbing etc.) | 20 | accounting | p2 · 2023 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - Fixtures | 20 | accounting | p16 · 2020 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - Boiler | 20 | accounting | p17 · 2020 |
| Lantzville | Electrical, Mechanical, Plumbing | 25 | accounting | p11 · 2019 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - Septic System | 25 | accounting | p17 · 2020 |
| Rainy River | Building Improvements - Electrical/Plumbing | 25 | accounting | p11 · 2010 |
| Rainy River | Building Improvements - Electrical/Plumbing | 25 | planning | p17 · 2026 |
| The Blue Mountains | Septic System | 25 | accounting | p11 · 2019 |
| Bancroft, Centre Hastings, Hastings Highlands, Wollaston · same table | Electrical/Plumbing | 25–30 | accounting | p5, p4, p6, p5 |
| Greater Napanee | E30 Chillers, Rink Piping, Fuel Storage Tanks | 30 | accounting | p16 · 2012 |
| Grey Highlands | Septic System | 30 | accounting | p11 · 2026 |
| The Blue Mountains | Plumbing System | 30 | accounting | p11 · 2019 |
| Trent Lakes | Mechanical Systems - Piping | 30 | accounting | p10 · 2009 |
| Parksville | Plumbing Infrastructure | 50 | accounting | p9 · 2023 |
| Greater Madawaska, Quinte West · same table | Piping | 50 | accounting | p17, p38 · 2025 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - System | 50 | accounting | p16 · 2020 |
| Meaford | Plumbing - Cistern | 50 | accounting | p16 · 2020 |
| The Blue Mountains | Cistern | 50 | accounting | p11 · 2019 |
Of 35 rows, 2 were compared with an image of their page; 33 were matched to their page automatically (the label and number appear in the page text). Follow the page link before relying on an automatically matched row. About the policies · All approved rows as JSON
Preventive maintenance
9 tasks in 3 work orders. Intervals that fall due together are one visit: the annual visit also covers the quarterly and semi-annual tasks.
- 1
- 2
- 3Qtr
- 4
- 5
- 6Semi
- 7
- 8
- 9Qtr
- 10
- 11
- 12Annual
Months from the schedule start. Download the tasks as CSV for a CMMS, or ask the MCP tool get_pm_schedule for dated visits.
Quarterly · 3 tasks
Source: TM 5-692-1 Maintenance of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment at Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Facilities: Recommended Maintenance Practices, Table 18-3 Sewage lift station and sewage sump unit
Semi-annual · 2 tasks
Source: TM 5-692-1 Maintenance of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment at Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Facilities: Recommended Maintenance Practices, Table 18-3 Sewage lift station and sewage sump unit
Annual · 4 tasks
Source: TM 5-692-1 Maintenance of Mechanical and Electrical Equipment at Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) Facilities: Recommended Maintenance Practices, Table 18-3 Sewage lift station and sewage sump unit
Frequencies are ISO 8601 durations in the data (P3M = every 3 months).
Open questions
- HUD's 50 years for sewage ejectors may describe the basin and piping rather than the pump. Pump lives need a second source.
- Every source here is a published planning, design or accounting life. None is observed replacement data.
- Some maintenance intervals come from TM 5-692-1, an Army manual for mission-critical (C4ISR) facilities; they may be tighter than typical commercial practice.
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Citation
unfinished.one (2026). Sewage ejector pump, v0.3.0. https://unfinished.one/c/sewage-ejector/v/0.3.0BibTeX
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note = {CC BY 4.0}
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